Job Description
Job Description
- Check prescriptions for errors, ensuring they’re appropriate and safe for the individual patient
- Provide advice on the dosage of medicines and the most appropriate form of medication, which could be by tablet, injection, ointment or inhaler
- Participate in ward rounds to take patient drug histories
- Liaise with other medical staff on problems patients may experience when taking their medicines
- Make sure medicines are stored appropriately and securely
- Supervise the work of the Technicians
- Answer questions about medicines from within the hospital, other hospitals, and the general public
- Keep up to date with, and contribute to, research and development
- Write guidelines for drug use within the hospital and implement hospital regulations
- Monitor drug stock level and control drug inventory
- Prepare and quality-check sterile medications, for example, intravenous medications.
- Head the administrative sector of the pharmacy etc.
